The Logical Foundations of the Marxian Theory of Value

1 The Prototype of Marx’s Labor Theory of Value.- 1.1 Marx’s concept of value.- 1.2 Description of the prototype.- 1.3 Mathematical modeling of the prototype.- 2 The Problem of Foundations.- 2.1 The sense and import of the Law of value.- 2.2 The problem of generalizing the prototype.- 2.3 A concise history of MTV.- 3 Structures and Representations.- 3.1 Structures.- 3.2 Representations.- 4 The Dialectical Method.- 4.1 Hegel’s dialectical method.- 4.2 The Marxian “inversion” of Hegel’s dialectic.- 4.3 A new formulation of dialectic.- 5 Abstract Labor.- 5.1 Krause’s treatment of abstract labor.- 5.2 The concept of abstract labor.- 5.3 The existence of abstract labor.- 5.4 The representation of abstract labor.- 6 The General Axioms of the Theory.- 6.1 A general market economy.- 6.2 The Fundamental Marxian Theorem.- 7 General Reproducibility.- 8 The Prototype Revisited.- 8.1 The Leontief economy.- 8.2 Mathematical modeling of the Leontief economy.- Notes.- Name Index.